Django 1.8.x

Support ended 2018-04-01

This series of Django releases was supported from 2015-04-01 to 2018-04-01.

Release Highlights

Django 1.8 was a long-term support release. Extended support ended on 2018-04-01.
Pluggable support for different template engines. You can now for example use Jinja2 instead of just Django Templates.
New contrib.postgres package for deeper and tighter integration with PostgreSQL
New SecurityMiddleware
Added UUIDField in the ORM

Creating a ModelForm without either the ‘fields’ attribute or the ’exclude’ attribute is prohibited

Supported Python Versions

Release Type

Version	Release Date	Release Type	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.19	2018-03-06	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.18	2017-04-04	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.17	2016-12-01	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.16	2016-11-01	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.15	2016-09-26	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.14	2016-07-18	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.13	2016-05-02	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.12	2016-04-01	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.11	2016-03-05	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.10	2016-03-01	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.9	2016-02-01	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.8	2016-01-02	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.7	2015-11-24	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.6	2015-11-04	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.5	2015-10-03	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.4	2015-08-18	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.3	2015-07-08	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.2	2015-05-20	SECURITY	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8.1	2015-05-01	BUGFIX	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8	2015-04-01	RELEASE	Blog Post	Release Notes	GitHub
1.8c1	2015-03-18	RC			GitHub
1.8b2	2015-03-09	BETA			GitHub
1.8b1	2015-02-25	BETA			GitHub
1.8a1	2015-01-16	ALPHA			GitHub